This week we published our Serbia Country Guide, created in collaboration with the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. Over the next few weeks we’ll be highlighting some of the unique business impacts in Serbia highlighted by the Country Guide.
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has published the report ‘Prohibition of Ill-treatment and Rights of Persons Deprived of their Liberty in Serbia’. This report is the second in the series produced within the scope of the project ‘Suppressing and Punishing Torture – From Adopting Legal Standards to Improving Practice’ which the Centre is implementing with the support of the EU and the Open Society Institute since 2009. (more…)
Donor: Open society Instittute
Duration: 2013 – 2015
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, with the financial support of the Open Society Institute – Budapest is implementing project “Reducing prison overcrowding in Serbia through monitoring, advocacy and sharing of best practices”. This project is a continuation of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights’ years-long activities aimed at humanising the penal sanctions enforcement system and improving the status of persons deprived of liberty by ensuring the application of international standards and providing information on examples of good practices. The activities envisaged under this project are a follow-up of a successful three-year project entitled “Suppressing and Punishing Torture in Serbia – From Adopting Legal Standards to Improving Practice“. (more…)
The play is the result of drama (process-workshops) with over 300 convicts serving time in two Serbian prisons. Their testimonies were used to prepare a forum play – an interactive theatrical form enabling the active participation of the audience and discussion. The cast includes several ex-convicts. The “PRISON SPA” has so far been performed in theatres in Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac and Belgrade and in three penitentiaries and will be staged in three other penitentiaries, subject to the Penal Sanctions Enforcement Administration’s consent. The play aims to acquaint the general and expert public with how the prison population lives and the problems they face. (more…)
Like in most other Central European countries, the practice of the Serbian judicial authorities is characterised by excessive resort to pre-trial detention (PTD). The situation in Serbia shows that the PTD measure is misunderstood, as ultima ratio. (more…)
The Human Rights House presented its comments of the latest European Commission Serbia Progress Report, notably the part on political criteria (human rights, rule of law, fight against corruption). The comment of the EC 2013 Serbia Progress Report is available in English at read more…
